On 6 May 2015 at 20:15, Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > >> It seems to me that most people have no idea what Unicode is and what is >> really >> involved. > > OK, so if we restrict the Universe of Discourse to the set of native > Hellenic speakers who know what Unicode is, know the importance of being > able to use it to identify the correct upper case of (for example) > 'GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI', and hold an informed opinion on > the matter, would you expect that 100% of these would agree that the > uppercase is 'GREEK LETTER EPSILON' and not 'GREEK LETTER EPSILON WITH > PSILI', or would you expect that some percentage (perhaps small) would > hold the opposite point of view ? > > ** Phil. >
I don't think that's the right question. Even if everyone, including the Unicode technical committee, agreed some properties are incorrect for some characters, it isn't clear we should change them at this level. I think that unicode-letters.def makes most sense as a fully automated representation of the UCD data files in TeX syntax. That way everyone knows what data is in there. Individual language packages have far fewer characters to worry about and can over-ride the base settings where appropriate. David [Joseph's original message was cross posted to luatex list, is there a particular reason that has been dropped? it seems unfortunate as a major part of the question was how to arrange to get the same settings on both systems] -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
